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tbs 63£gatum fcf 6 growing Out
of ibis circumstance, is ridiculous in the ex
treme.—( bosiioi Gazette.
T^c#Q gun ship* (the Aebar) we believe
wsr sent from Halifax foeruise a Ions;- the
rpul, end to touch at Shelburne, Moose
LU'.d. &e. to engage the tnimSs of the
ci who had discovered a luminous dis*
pus'!?!*■ Sesznrt-s it is reported, have ta-
K t pftee for Hedged breaches of the rev
enue * ; but tv* trust this will not be
found on trial to he the f?t. We presume
a portion of this property must be British,
in the present t.rtuatioo of England and the
wo.ld.it i u t probable a war is toulem
plated.—{Boston CentineL
From the Connecticut Cater ant.
THE BRIEF RE MARKER.
There hi a pretty Urge number of men in
ibis * ountry, w ho, though not of the Hebrew
(Stock, do nevertheless rleve fast to tbatpart
of ‘! f> old Mosxical law which enjoins a
Release * They think, or seem to think,
tlntf the debts owed fay them aro by so tan-d;
the ’ess biudiog, bv how much older they
Wre grown, end that when they have be
v.sa seven years of age, they are of course
exncelled in the chancery of equity and
coos'ieuce.—-This is more particularly the
epse as respects small debts; about which
a tartar many, otherwise of good memories,
Sieve a convenient lack of recoHet lion.
The foliowittg story 1 have beard rela
ted as a matter of fact:—No >cry long
while since, A. Int hii neighbor. B. a
sm 11 “inui of money, to be repaid io on *
week. However, without any thing being
asid shout it on either side, it ran on a
whole year, when the lender for the
money, ami got a prompt renewal of the
old promise of payment in a week’s time.—
In the seme wry it w •* permitted lo run on*
•vm her year, when th“ loan was craved a
,Tr, *.sd ugeio was (he smut’ promts re
aev/.’d At the e*l of the third ytar, A
ac’ cited payment a third time, and in lire
presomce of a third parson j <*r>d receiving
a't igo'. but a uew addition of the like tair
promise, ho expressed bis dcicrriiinattop <>t
sp *d>ly doing himself justice and went his
way in a pet. B. was brushed at bis up
courtfeous :'<‘havior— for they had ever be
fore been loving friends—he was struck
with amazement, and addressing himself to,
the said third person, remarked • “ that
of mine, sir, I. trust ueed say, ie
ft worthy mao in the main, but after al! he
fs m oddity. The trilling debt, do you see,
is an old aff&ir, aa affair of several years!
standing, aim yet he duns ms as hard im if;
I aid borrowed the money but a month a- i
* !” I
n i a canons fact, of no very auspicious j,
omen, that while most other things have 1
beet growing dearer, promises have been :
growing cheaper. They are coma to be.i
fake that kina of drug that operate* speedi- ,
ly or not at a,H. They become stale as it ’
vrere by viuae : so the longer the exaction of ]
■perferjjanee is forborne, the more difficult j
it is to obtain it. Hence small debts that
£f*t waxing old are as bad as last, being ‘
scarcely worth the trouble of collecting. <
Nor is it altogether among the baser sort ’
that this delinquency is found. You may
find it among met) of high standing, and of j
honorable feelings in most other respects.
They would stum the imputation of menu-; ‘
ness, or falsehood, or roguery ; but never* 1 1
tireless, permit themselves to forgot, proim-j
ae# especially in little matters, and the m-,
ther perhaps, from thinking that their etc- 1
dstors, out of respect or fear, would as leave J
Soic the debts as to urge i’or payment in ,
go‘d earnest. It is found, often fouud, a-;’
•33 ngoien m ; M in temper, courteous in their ,
**nnyrs, kind and neighborly, hospitable <■
in their houses, and in abort of excellent .
reputation, save this K dead fly in the pro- ‘ :
rious ointflvnf.*’ If you are io distress & \
33eed tbeir charity, they will <jrvia j but if,
they owe you, they will thufile ass pay-• 1
went without uuy regard to your interest rj
ieelings* * j
Marvellous incoasistoory ! Are they so j
blind as not to see that withholding just j
dues, of however small a mount, is positive),
io,justice ? That it scarce makes any ditier-j ’
elite, an the moral scalo, whether one filchesj 1
frr.m his neighbor, or intentionally with
holds what belongs to him ? Are they un
r.urmro that it destroy a their credit and biota 1
their reputation ? That it attaches to
them a snspi<'ioi> of a nt of pnnei- 1
po or raiherof wilful fulsebood ucd dit*-!
honesty ? Are they unaware of the Mnotii- j
ered indignation that burns in the bosoms j
<f those they .> lightly disappoint? till
t’io hard n*i bi>ter throws that are private-1
ly of tl i m on this cocount ev? by);
tbeir frtende ? Or, CniJy, are they ut;-j
cwaie that the public interest “uilbr* oire (
from this species of cril than from alt the ‘
theft ami robbery (hot ft* committed, it) rhe |
land } and ib&l if all met) acted, in tiua; 1
Aspect, like. ther* ; '.lv *, there would be an j
end to pri/ulo credit and sS .tcai eon S-j
b- if * P j
i'jnujl debis are entitled Io hr regarded j
-yft deb ?“f honor. A rvnn at’ strii! hwor
Cud corojj.etuut tceL* vul oc tari;\-cia!*y •
*■&:h v"hptcr clS^aicroscrr?
carefui i.o u*eabc.igv, Rpt.rasie<ii;4y
punctually, those triiiiug !ebt.s, which it is
so unpleasant even to ask for, and tnueh r
more to new for over and over again. A r
man of strict honesty will nay not to his
neighbor, “ Go, aud ebrae agaiof and to
morrow I will pay,” when ho han it by him.
Instead of which, it is bis settled rule, as.
far as his cireumsteueea will permit, to pay
without delay, without giving his neighbor
the trouble aud pain of repealed
tioa aud importunate solicitation.
—-
From the Peterslurgh Intelligence.?.
CHARACTER OF THE EN
GLISH ARMY.
We have been told by the En
glish papers, that the duke of Wel
• lington had agreed to employ the
allied troops as custom house of
ficers in France, upon condition
of their receiving a per centage
on the amount of goods that they
may seize 4. Thus would profit &
glory be made to unite in a man
ner never before thought of. This
base and dishonorable agreement
has not escaped the notice of Mr,
Gqbj&ett, who, while comment
ing upon this statement in his
26th No. gives the following cha
racter of the British army, offi
cers and men—and such a char
acter, we venture to assert, never
was before applied to an army ofl
civilized people;—“The army oi j
Wellington are a set of imprind- 1
pled wretches, officers as well as j
men. What very base creatures?
must they be indeed, to receive j
the perqu sites of spies and in for-f,
mers! I do not believe there b a ■
set of MEANER TV.VVi Z UVO?’ j
earth, generally speaking,than <
the officers of the English army .
arid navy; Nothing isjio disgust- j
ingas their society. Their con* *
versation almost always turns j
upon prize mon£i or plunder- 1 1
ing of some sort or other. If two |
of them get together, and any per- j,
son happens to overhear thenidh
without knowing also what theyij
are, he naturally thinks that he is ’
listening to a couple of highway* ;]
men, housebreakers or pirates, eci,
constantly does their con versa- ’i
tion consist of questions, explana-i,
tions and narratives, relativet]
to their plundering exploits. ,
I have never dared to publish the ,
correspondence between those
mean pillagers, the Cochranes, I,
Oockbums, he. which was pub-!
iished long ago in the United
States. The people of England
are not so base as to hear w ithout ,
indignation of those low acts of
theft which were committed by
our naval officers m divers parts
of that country. —But there is no ,
man in England, who dares,
through the press , make known ,
those, or any other of their vile
thieveries. n The reader will bear ,
in rnind, tnat this character of the
British army was sketched by a j
native and resident of England,
who will yield to none of his I
countrymen in point of talents or ;
he were disposed ;
to exaggerate, we all know r to t
which side of the question such:
a man would most inevitably lean, i (
Exaggerate indeed 4 We all knovv t;
that he does not; the people of En
gland knows that he does not; the
people of Hampton, Frenchtovvn
& Havrs-de-Grace~-the wreck
ed slaves of India and of Africa
i —the miserable subjects of ’
! France and of Ireland—nay the
1 whole world, can bear witncs J
| Av-.t V’- •* rertu r-‘& 5 1
New YoitßjGciober and. i
The editor has just received a
letter from a friend at Fort Qsa
ga, Missouri territory, dated Au
gust 31, by which we learn some
advices respecting that very in-
sting part of our country; we
extract the following paragraphs; |
u Two parties of surveyors !
have been here six or seven!
weeks j they left this to-day ; one
* party to run the boundary line
south, between the the territory’
and the Indians, which has never
yet been run. After running two
leagues square for the fort, on
the west side of the line and riv
er, they commenced in the centre j
of the fort to run due south to the
Arkansaw river; the other
party proceeded up the Missouri
to the mouth of the Caw or Kan
scs river, about thirty miles a
bove v.s, whence they commence,
and run due north one hundred
miles, thence due east until they
strike die waters of the Mississip
pi.
“The surveyors, while-atthk
place, took the latitude and the va
| nation of the compass; the fort
| stands in 30 degrees 5 minutes
north latitude. The variation of
j the. compass was U 1-4 degrees!
ica&S.
! The Indian appear somewhat
at our funnihg lines,
not knowing, ct not wishing toi
knew, what i; means, notwith-;
standing die treaty which they
signed some years ago. Tlnre is 1
but hide danger appreivended cf
their commencing hos?ibtres. I
believe if they cannot frighten 1
they will not fight us.
“ Mr. Choteau, mentioned in
my last letter, was not defeated,?
as reported, but had a fight; he :
had 80 men, and was aitackedby |
150 Pawnees; he lost one man!
hilled and had four wounded. He j
defeated the Indians, who lost se
ven killed, whom he found, but
supposed many more were killed;
he brought in 44 packs of beaver,
or 4,400 pounds. He has return
ed with a party of about forty
men, to the mountains %o stay “
two years.
“ It is astonishkigia what num
bers the people are flocking to
this country from every state, and
of every description. Boon's set
tlement, Which, a short time
since, cpmpr ised only a few scat
tering cabins, in an immence for
est, and settled by the wild and
uncultivated, has now become a
county, with courts of justice, and
men of all professions, and will
soon resemble a city, with ah its :
politeness, comforts, and dvilUa-j
tion. < , - •
We understand that his excel
lency governor Posey, the honor
able judge Parke, arid Mr. Sharpe
are appointed commissioners to
negoeiate with the Mianaies. The
purchase oflandon the branches’
of White river is probably the
object in view.
Indiana Herald, 28 th Sept.
Land
FOR SALE— Apply to
A. G livUFORD. t
5?
v rf v v•* I”.
3 * ’
srrr* feereaftcr inserttwi
in ttkiis ppr will be for toirb
square, (first paiilieatiau) Seventy jive eenhi
nod Lfly eeTt f £ fo* every weekly eonttf?a
fina.—C-asb most aceorapun? ali adverti*
juients (except those from Putfiie Ol&eertq
ito insure their yaMioity. Alt those ife*.
, detAed for advertising, are requested to
I MEfeepsyrseßt. .
POSTPONED ELECTION.
IC?* An Election will fee field at the Count
i HoL # .e in L'luisvilio. on the 2d of Decern*
ber next for CLERK OK THE
It!Oft COURT und SHERIFF, of .lesser
hod countj, in the room V Ha vm Ci inx#
<Sj’ Jobs w. £ o&tfci, Esquires, resigned.
jCf We are requested to announce that
jMr. Bbenezer Both well ie a Candidate for
Receiver of Tux Returns of Jdfareoc
eonatj. .
krT Wo ary requested to
iah Esq. a coudidate for Eseeivcy
of Tax Rturns'.’ ‘ v ?- ’ : ’ ‘
We ore informed tla hetJoited Sfates*
briar SamriHC, eornmanded by lieut. FdtiJO,,
itas arrived at ground, near
the Bay of Si. Louis, a fl*w dayi ag>■> ; *?•>
has been down the Mexican Bay, knit LA.
Elton had the pte&sere of seeing the &■>&■
nauioiods fieet of the Dona; that insulted
Lt. Obumagham, but tVom prudcnli tl t*io
tives the Dons, who rouUl outsail the Sara
aa-.* t kept at a respectM distatue—for
three day* did Lt. Eltea er.deavor to get
within hailing distance, but vhlfbrfnt avail
Louisiana GuseUe, Sept,
| tse(te*B frcaj mertt'ened in a
Loudon paper, say, “ the Ameriean Am
bassador bee proposed to abandon th®
claims of his OorernmeKt-for seizure* aiw
dcr liouap iirte’s Decree*, on eobdjtir.n of
West Florid* h|iag coeded by Bpain to
| the United States, but that Fevdiaafttl’s
! M!ni*ter declined all netrotiarien* Oft th@
abject.”
■ft*’ ■!<■*
Late arrivals from Oftdiz mention nothing
of Lord K!SMpjTa*B squadron. Mr. MA9
was still conUncdt in prisos*
Go vs ra meat have ‘£ re*e i.f®4 patches
flora Mr. Irving, our Minister in Spain.
Gen. Ritbftt passed Washing*
ton a few dys ago on l ie wsy to New<>
Orleans, wlure he is to lake the coaimnd
We know of ao ottiner to whom that in
ports St stAtieu could better be assigned.
i rnL aVTUBteBTS BMSHkY4tte&l
It will be Bee by the fo?towing letter,,
! that ALFRED CtJTBBLHT hns resign
ed hu in the present Congress of thfl
Itniled Siates. We regret the circumstance
that produced it; and which deprives Geoi 4 *
aiti of an able, patriotic and worthy replft*
sentalive.— (Savannah Republican.
v * Siivannah, October 4tlA
* s Sir—The result ot the election, hold
en in this state, on the fitist Monday cf
the present month, having toesn suffieisntlw
| r.ssertaift and, permit me, ‘through you, to ro
sign the seat which I occupy in ihe con
gress of the. ucited States, as one of ihft
representative* of the state of Georgia.
ftc#u6CttuHV)
A. CUTHBERT.
His excellency David B. Mi'ehefl,
Governor of Ceorgift.
The following gertlesncn are elected to
; represent thi* stale in the fifteenth con^
■ gre* of tho’U. Stetes :
Williain Terrell; Joel Crawford, Joel
Abbott, 55adofk Cook, Thomas W. Cobb*
and John Forsyth* lire first five are netr
members.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman on boars
; the United State* sloop of war Peacock^
; dated u Glbrcltar, Jiugust 16.
t We arrived here on the lfith inst. the
day after Lord Exmoutb’s squadron failed;
for the destruction of Algiers. On taking
his departure he was saluted by the bat
teries on shore, which was returned bey tb*
squadron. They have been here earn*
time preparing and exercising their boat*
for the expedition, and ot one time made*,
display of ninety, exercising a hraqs gun
in each. , .?i
* “ Commodore ChaoncAy is off N*p?e%’
where our squadron at present rendost
and the Pcaco k pTfeemlfto jfin hifV ”
Another letter from Gibrattf r atWaf, that
the frigate Constellation would pfouevd m
a few day* for the C. States.
CH ARLES TOK, Get. 18,
The ship M sdelsna. Capc. Welden, hiL
longing to Messrs, Kill . ftobbjjntf, of Ji.
York, arrivoddt Fridadelphia, fa tbs Itlt
in as ijay from Teftcrlffe. On thu
2/th of Ai.gKSL, four days before the Mndf
Itna.seTcd, * he British Packer Bruril,
rived :k > jar*, rn \\ day* Bibrirf*